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Digging through ancient texts
Posted by MrLuke on 18th March 2013 in Blogging | ancient texts, church history, extra biblical
The Orthodox and Catholics have all the books from the Septuagint, which is what most of
the early Christians would have known regarding the Old Testament. Those "extra" books that Protestants call the Deuterocanonical books (or that the general laypeople often refer to as 'The Apocrypha'), they're just part of the Old Testament the same as the more
familiar OT books.During the Reformation in the 16th century,
Luther decided to remove these books (and planned to remove some New Testament books too) as he believed they weren't canonical and cited Jerome as his authority to make this decision. It
was Jerome ...Organic Church
Posted by MrLuke on 9th March 2011 in Blogging | organic, faith, God, Jesus, mission
I was reading an article on Christianity Today
(amongst other blogs) earlier on about the subject of "organic church" and its possible success and probable future failures. Now, I'll admit I didn't (don't?) know a great deal about
organic church other than I've heard the name thrown about before. According to the article it includes " at least three ingredients" to be counted as "organic". First being "Frustration
with the-church-as-we-know-it" - well I'm sure there's quite a few people who would fall into that category, I know I do! The second ingredient for this recipe for church is "a
focus on people (vs. progra...